![]() We also produce much more useful work product. It becomes complex (and interesting!) once you think of contract drafting as a human-centered design enterprise with all these different stakeholders and interests. This lens helps the drafter anticipate concerns and choose their words carefully to drive desired responses by those various stakeholders throughout those potential phases. ![]() ![]() For transactional attorneys, this includes considering who will be ingesting our various drafts (e.g., supervising attorneys, clients, counterparties, judges) throughout the phases of a relationship (e.g., negotiations, performance, good times, bad times, potential disputes, litigation). Good writing starts with understanding your audience and what you want to accomplish for them (i.e., what you want them to learn or do). How is good writing tied to being effective as a transactional attorney? Once these materials evolved to prove useful for my students, I realized they could solve similar problems and be of similar benefit to junior and summer associates at firms. So I built this training with whatever e-learning authoring tools I could find. Most of the work in the clinic involved reviewing and drafting contracts, and I wanted to speed up their development of these skills with online, interactive, self-paced training on the model of language learning apps. I originally created Praktio to help my Michigan Law students navigate a language barrier obstructing their ability to stretch into client work in my transactional clinic. ![]() ![]() What got you interested in creating educational content for lawyers? Michael is a former lawyer and law school professor turned tech entrepreneur. WordRake recently spoke with Michael Bloom, founder of Praktio, an online learning platform for lawyers. When a law student graduates from law school, they quickly realize there is more to learn than what law school taught them. ![]()
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